Remember Monday when I reported on Flickr's new geotagging features, which gives users a nice drag-and-drop interface for "tagging" photos with the location they were taken at? I thought it was cool, but expected it to take off fairly slowly. According to the official FlickrBlog, though, in the first 24 hours more than 1.2 million photos were geotagged by Flickr users. In his post on the blog, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield writes, "When we were doing our projections for how many photos Flickr members would geotag, we though that we'd hit Spiral Jetty a million in the first month, maybe even as fast as two weeks. Instead, 24 hours in, there were 1,234,384 geotagged photos (and now more than 1.6 million geotagged photos as I write this, about 9 hours later). Crazy!" Crazy indeed. Browsing around the Flickr map it's obvious he's right--there's way more pink polka dots on the map now, even in my little rural corner of the world. Butterfield also writes a bit about the technical side of Flickr, which will be of interest to my fellow web dev geeks.[Via TechCrunch]
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8-30-2006 @ 2:58PM
Nicole Simon said...
They also have a cool interaction with upcoming org now to register events with photos, in case you did not notice that. Together with geotagging this really makes this more fun.
Now can we please have cameras with a gps information saver?! :)
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8-30-2006 @ 5:42PM
asurroca said...
I'm proud to say that something like a thousand of those are mine. I got to tagging as soon as they added geotagging yesterday. I'm loving it so far, althogh the map is very slow (I'm not sure it it was choking due to all the people geotagging or if it's just Yahoo! Maps)
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